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Date:      Sat, 1 May 2004 03:15:45 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa clock.c
Message-ID:  <20040501031423.M2159@odysseus.silby.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040501155815.L19822@gamplex.bde.org>
References:  <200404272003.i3RK3RFZ048001@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040430221434.J749@odysseus.silby.com> <20040501155815.L19822@gamplex.bde.org>

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On Sat, 1 May 2004, Bruce Evans wrote:

> Depends on the timecounter.  The vmstat -i times are consistent with
> using the TSC timecounter after miscalibrating the TSC by a factor of
> 1556/1575.  Other timecounters don't use boot time calibration by
> default (i8254) or at all (acpi).
>
> Bruce

Ok, I'm going to switch to using i8254 for now, until we can figure out
what's wrong with the Mhz detection.

BTW, the correct frequency was the one from last year:  1595 Mhz (Er, at
least that was the one reported in all my saved dmesgs from that time.)

Mike "Silby" Silbersack



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